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New Predatory Flatworm Invades Southern U.S.
Gizmodo ^ | September 25, 2024 | Ed Cara

Posted on 09/25/2024 8:56:27 PM PDT by Red Badger

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OBAMA WORM!.....................
1 posted on 09/25/2024 8:56:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Do they get to vote?


2 posted on 09/25/2024 9:00:34 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

More celebratory diversity.


3 posted on 09/25/2024 9:06:01 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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“ Do they get to vote?{
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Not yet. But they are an excellent source of protein. They’re swallowed raw and whole… like oysters.


4 posted on 09/25/2024 9:07:13 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAXted)
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To: Red Badger
Named A-MAGA Pseudobama. MAGA before Obama. Works for me.

MAGA and OBAMA. Nice. It needs a middle name like "Jotato."

A-MAGA Jotato Pseudobama

5 posted on 09/25/2024 9:08:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: Red Badger

Yawn. North America during the last glacial maximum killed off most of the tropical fauna and vegetation. Now that we are in an interglacial there are a lot of empty niches for tropical animals to fill.


6 posted on 09/25/2024 9:14:47 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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Yawn. North America during the last glacial maximum killed off most of the tropical fauna and vegetation.

Between exotics and uninterrupted vegetative succession, our property was down to 60 plant species. With careful management and control of exotics, that number is now 400.

Exotic species are the single most powerful force causing mass extirpations, more than development. Yawn all you like, but the rate of differentiation will never match the rate of displacement.

7 posted on 09/25/2024 9:27:08 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Red Badger

Originally from South America. Gee, I wonder how it got here? (eye roll)


8 posted on 09/25/2024 9:31:04 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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We had these diseases eradicated, and now the illegal aliens are not only reintroducing the old diseases, the are bringing even more "surprises". I despise them.

9 posted on 09/25/2024 9:34:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: House Atreides

Pass. Sounds like it could be a vector for rat lungworm


10 posted on 09/25/2024 9:37:07 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Green bean idiots are always trying to freeze the current conditions on earth in place. If you lived 12,000 years ago you would have been trying to save the Laurentide ice sheet that covered all of Canada. You are in good company with the climate change alarmists.


11 posted on 09/25/2024 9:46:59 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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As if we don’t have enough illegal aliens 👽 to worry about.


12 posted on 09/25/2024 10:16:00 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Between exotics and uninterrupted vegetative succession, our property was down to 60 plant species. With careful management and control of exotics, that number is now 400.

And how many species of predatory flatworm is it home to?

We'll wait while you count.

Regards,

13 posted on 09/25/2024 10:25:19 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Green bean idiots are always trying to freeze the current conditions on earth in place.

I'm not. Among other things, I am discovering how Indians used native plants, some of which have very profitable potential today. Unlike you, I'm willing to admit that we don't know very much about how those systems worked.

You are in good company with the climate change alarmists.

If that's your standard for a conclusion, you're a certifiable idiot, so I suggest you reconsider. But I don't have a lot of hope for that because you didn't check out the links on my FR page seriously. That's just lazy.

I'm not a fan of the glow-bill warming fraud. I'm undoing the environmental rationale for this country's social meltdown for the purpose of population control, as perpetrated by one guy you've never heard of between 1931-56. I produced a physical proof his assumptions were wrong, you know, what it takes to induce a scientific sea change.

I earned the first free market environmental management business method patent in order to preclude a corporate equivalent by prior art. In fact, it predates the carbon trading patent. Get off you fat lazy keister and read.

14 posted on 09/25/2024 10:28:20 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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And how many species of predatory flatworm is it home to?

None to my knowledge. Nor is it clearly established how predatory this beastie is.

Exotics took out the American Elm, and brought us chestnut blight, wiping out millions of acres of high protein food for wildlife and people. That's not a good thing. Importation of exotics has been a burden to the American farmer, while subsidizing our competition with cheaper imports. It's been a boon to chemical companies though.

So what's your point? Mine is that I do know a thing or two about exotic species v. native biodiversity, more than any of the academic greenies. The technologies I've developed could form a nexus of a profitable industry. Is there something wrong with that?

15 posted on 09/25/2024 10:37:54 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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And how many species of predatory flatworm is it home to?

None to my knowledge.

So they've gotten to you, too?

So what's your point?

Regards,

16 posted on 09/25/2024 10:52:00 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Animal populations move, climate always changes, sea levels go up and down, and new species arise while others die out. You are probably one of the clowns cheering on the extermination of the eastern barred owl to save the weak spotted owl. The barred owl naturally expanded its range west and began to outcompete the spotted owl and now the feds are planning to exterminate thousands of barred owls. Pure stupidity from pinheaded environazis.


17 posted on 09/25/2024 11:09:44 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Carry_Okie

No thoughts on the barred owl slaughter fiasco brought to us by pointy-headed econazi nerds?


18 posted on 09/26/2024 12:08:38 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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You are probably one of the clowns cheering on the extermination of the eastern barred owl to save the weak spotted owl.

Wrong again moron .

19 posted on 09/26/2024 5:46:31 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Save the barred owl!

Look, I get it. It’s you career but the environazis have ruined the profession with their obsession to try to freeze things in place. Save the Delta Smelt!


20 posted on 09/26/2024 6:13:06 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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